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Make Sushi With Chef Janet At a Local Brewery
Add homemade sushi to your home cooking line-up with this in-person cooking class from Chef Janet. She’ll introduce you to knifing, rice preparation and ingredient…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Wicker Park Bucktown’s “First Fridays” Art Walk
The “First Fridays Art Walk,” organized by the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, welcomes art enthusiasts to explore the neighborhoods’ vibrant arts scene. All…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Oil & Water: A Live Painting Showdown at Patrician Gallery
Oil & Water: A Live Painting Showdown at Patrician Gallery Date: March 7, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM – Reception | 7:00 PM – Show Location: Patrician Gallery &…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events, Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
Wicker Park Bucktown’s “First Fridays” Art Walk
Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce welcomes art enthusiasts to the next upcoming “First Fridays Art Walk.” Participants will have the opportunity to explore the…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events
The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival
The Chicago Women of Color Puppetry and Performing Arts Fringe Festival 2025 celebrates its first year at the Zhou B Art Center, 4th Floor Women…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro Zinzanni
Tickets are on sale Now at https://zinzanni.com/chicago/ for Love, Chaos, & Dinner ! Teatro Zinzanni returns to the vibrant Chicago Loop inside the velvet walls…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Team Deakins returns to the Athenaeum Center
Following an October 2024 series of sold-out programming, Chicago’s not-for-profit Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture (2936 N. Southport Avenue) proudly welcomes back legendary Academy…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Infinite Wrench
Don’t miss the longest running late-night show in Chicago! At The Infinite Wrench you’ll see 30 original plays in 60 minutes written and performed by…
Festivals, Fairs & Special Events
Zen del Sur at the 2025 Chicago Flamenco Festival
Dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the multi-cultural art form of flamenco, Chicago Flamenco Festival returns to the Instituto Cervantes Chicago, celebrating its XXIII…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Live Arts | Natural Information Society and the Films of Stan Brakhage
For this special performance, select 16mm, silent abstract films by influential experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) are accompanied by a live performance by the Natural…
Sports & Recreation
Femme Speed Friending
Meet your new BFF over games and drinks in Chicago’s favorite immersive art experience. Creators of the game “No Wrong Answers,” Josh Linden and Paula…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Lookingglass Theatre Company Presents Circus Quixote
After pausing its operations last year to reorganize and create a new business model, Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company, in association with The Actors…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Roar Speakeasy: A Prohibition Era Experience
Go back in time to Chicago’s Prohibition Era at The Roar on Rush! A lively Speakeasy that lights the way to a hidden 4-room cocktail…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alice in Wonderland
Hyde Park School of Dance, now in its 31st year of training, performance, and community, presents Alice in Wonderland, returning after its successful revival in…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance
Presented by the Department of Music and The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. The best-known and most loved of all Gilbert and Sullivan works (at least…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jackalope Theatre Company’s The Singularity Play
CHICAGO – Jackalope Theatre Company continues its 16th season at Edgewater’s Berger Park, 6205 N. Sheridan Rd., with the world premiere of The Singularity Play,…
Tours & Attractions
Big Bus Tours’ Sunset Live Tour
Big Bus Tours, the global leader in open-top bus sightseeing, invites visitors to experience the enhanced Sunset Live Tour in Chicago. Available now through Oct.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
With music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” follows the journey of Hedwig Robinson,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alabama Story
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing in Montgomery, Alabama, a segregationist senator and the state librarian clash over the content of a children’s book…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alabama Story
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing in Montgomery, Alabama, a segregationist senator and the state librarian clash over the content of a children’s book…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Boy Gets Girl
Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman The life of a successful career woman takes a terrifying turn when a seemingly innocent blind date spirals into…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Elephant in the Room by Priyanka Shetty
South Asia Institute presents the Chicago debut with just two exclusive shows of “The Elephant in the Room”, a critically acclaimed one-woman show by Priyanka…
Music & Comedy
Grossman Ensemble – World Premieres II
Celebrated for their “precision” (Third Coast Review) and dynamic prowess, the Grossman Ensemble takes the stage under the baton of David Fulmer for four world…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Raisin in the Sun
New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on…
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